Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
- Subject: Re: Oh dear - another clueless 'setenv DISPLAY' question...
- From: "Piotr Grzybowski" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:28:50 +0200
you are aware that this discussion is pointless and trivial,
since every one knows and agrees that using ssh-agent
is a good solution.
if your system has been compromised you are in deep troubles
anyway, and no wonderfull solution will help you.
you like to have the last word, dont you? ;-)
type it here: _______! :)
yours,
pg
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:16 PM, James Elliott <email@hidden> wrote:
> If you're using private keys without passphrases, you're leaving lockpicking
> tools lying around in your filesystem that anyone could use trivially to
> compromise your other systems.
>
> The ssh-agent support built into Leopard lets you stick to sane security
> practices, and take advantage of the Keychain application to provide the
> passphrase for your private key when ssh needs it, so you have convenience
> *and* security.
>
> -Jim
>
> On Oct 10, 2008, at 15:39, Jamie Kennea wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:55 PM, James Elliott wrote:
>>
>>> Hopefully this article will get you going:
>>>
>>> http://www.mactips.org/archives/2007/12/20/using-passwordless-ssh-the-easy-guide-leopard-only/
>>
>> I don't get why they list this method as "Leopard Only". I've been doing
>> this exact thing for years, on Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. As far as I can
>> see this method has everything to do with ssh keys and nothing to do with
>> the Mac OS X keychain at all. Odd.
>>
>> It does work great though.
>>
>> Jamie
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